CHAPTER VIII.
FURTHER IMPROVEMENTS IN CHEAP TIME-KEEPERS.
-- THE PROCESS OF CLOCK MAKING .-- It would be no doubt interesting to a great many to know what improvements have been made in manufacturing clocks during the past twenty years.

I recollect I paid for work on the O.G.case one dollar and seventy-five cents; for the same work in 1855, I paid twenty cents, and many other things in the same proportion.

The last thing that I invented, which has proved to be of great usefulness, was the one day timepiece that can be sold for seventy-five cents, and a fair profit at that.

I remember well when I was about to give up the job, of asking the man who made the cases for the factory what he would make this case for.
He said he could not do it for less than eight cents, I told him I knew he could make them for five cents, and do well, but he honestly thought he could not.

He was to make two thousand per month--twenty-four thousand a year.